@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@ jobs:
             frontend/roslyn/samples/SampleTypes.cs \
             frontend/roslyn/samples/PipeFieldsSample.cs \
             frontend/roslyn/samples/AppLifetimeSample.cs \
+            frontend/roslyn/samples/ViewOwnsVmSample.xaml.cs \
+            frontend/roslyn/samples/InjectedDcViewSample.xaml.cs \
             -o "$RUNNER_TEMP/facts.json"
           cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/facts.json"
       - name: Check facts through the core
@@ -292,6 +294,18 @@ jobs:
           if echo "$out" | grep -q "AppLifetimeSample.cs"; then
             echo "FAIL: a process-lived App static-event subscription was wrongly reported (OWN014 FP)"; exit 1
           fi
+          # P-004 WPF MVVM ownership (mined: ScreenToGif VideoSource): a view that
+          # CONSTRUCTS its view-model in its own XAML (`<X.DataContext><VM/>` — read from
+          # the sibling .xaml) owns it, so a field assigned from `DataContext` is
+          # self-owned and subscribing to its events is a collectable cycle -> SILENT.
+          if echo "$out" | grep -q "ViewOwnsVmSample"; then
+            echo "FAIL: a view that owns its VM via its own XAML DataContext was wrongly reported"; exit 1
+          fi
+          # negative control: a view whose XAML BINDS its DataContext (`<Binding/>`) does
+          # NOT own the VM (it may be externally supplied), so the subscription must
+          # still WARN — proving the gate keys off proven construction, not every cast.
+          echo "$out" | grep -qE "InjectedDcViewSample\.xaml\.cs:[0-9]+: warning: \[OWN001\].*injected dependency whose lifetime is unknown" \
+            || { echo "FAIL: a bound (unowned) DataContext subscription must still warn with the injected-source wording"; exit 1; }
           # P-006 DI001 (captive dependency): the registration + constructor graph
           # extracted from DiCaptiveSample.cs feeds ownlang/di.py. A singleton that
           # captures a scoped service — directly, transitively through a transient,
 
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 // repo (this is what the `own-check` script / GitHub Action do).
 
 using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Xml.Linq;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp;
 using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.Syntax;
@@ -220,6 +221,57 @@ static bool IsProcessLivedApplication(TypeDeclarationSyntax cls)
         && cls.Modifiers.Any(m => m.IsKind(SyntaxKind.PartialKeyword));
 }
 
+// P-004 WPF MVVM ownership: a field read from `this.DataContext`, optionally through
+// an `as`/cast (`DataContext as VM`, `(VM)DataContext`). Combined with a view whose
+// own XAML CONSTRUCTS its DataContext, such a field is the view's owned view-model.
+static bool ReadsDataContext(ExpressionSyntax expr)
+{
+    expr = expr switch
+    {
+        BinaryExpressionSyntax b when b.IsKind(SyntaxKind.AsExpression) => b.Left,
+        CastExpressionSyntax c => c.Expression,
+        _ => expr,
+    };
+    return expr switch
+    {
+        IdentifierNameSyntax id => id.Identifier.Text == "DataContext",
+        MemberAccessExpressionSyntax m => m.Name.Identifier.Text == "DataContext"
+            && m.Expression is ThisExpressionSyntax,
+        _ => false,
+    };
+}
+
+// P-004 WPF MVVM ownership: does this XAML construct its own DataContext inline —
+// `<Root.DataContext><vm:Foo/></Root.DataContext>` — so the view OWNS its view-model
+// (a collectable view<->VM cycle)? Parsed structurally (XAML is XML), restricted to the
+// ROOT element's own DataContext: the code-behind's `this.DataContext` is the root's, so
+// a nested `<Grid.DataContext><ChildVm/>` (a different element's) must NOT exempt the
+// view (Codex / CodeRabbit) — else a real leak on the root's injected VM is dropped.
+// True only when the root's DataContext child is a constructed object that the view owns:
+// NOT a binding / resource reference, and NOT an `x:`-namespace language object
+// (`x:Static`, `x:Null`, `x:Reference`, ...), which name an external/shared value. A
+// malformed `.xaml` yields false (conservative — no exemption, never a dropped leak).
+static bool XamlDeclaresOwnedDataContext(string xaml)
+{
+    XDocument doc;
+    try { doc = XDocument.Parse(xaml); }
+    catch (System.Xml.XmlException) { return false; }
+    var root = doc.Root;
+    if (root is null)
+        return false;
+    // The root's OWN `<Root.DataContext>` property-element (a direct child of the root,
+    // in the root's namespace) — not a nested element's, not another property.
+    var dc = root.Element(root.Name.Namespace + (root.Name.LocalName + ".DataContext"));
+    var child = dc?.Elements().FirstOrDefault();
+    if (child is null)
+        return false;
+    if (child.Name.NamespaceName == "http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml")
+        return false;   // x:Static / x:Null / x:Reference / x:Type / ...
+    return child.Name.LocalName is not ("Binding" or "MultiBinding" or "PriorityBinding"
+        or "StaticResource" or "DynamicResource" or "RelativeSource"
+        or "TemplateBinding" or "Reference" or "Null");
+}
+
 // P-004 severity tiering: of the subscriptions that survive the self-owned and
 // static-handler exemptions (and are not timers), how long-lived is the event
 // SOURCE? A static event lives for the whole process, so an undetached handler is
@@ -1805,6 +1857,12 @@ static bool IsPublicCtor(SyntaxTokenList modifiers)
 // it under), then build ONE compilation over all of them so the SemanticModel
 // resolves cross-file and cross-project symbols (P-014 Tier A).
 var parsed = new List<(string file, SyntaxTree tree)>();
+// P-004 WPF MVVM: source-file paths (`Foo.xaml.cs`) whose sibling `Foo.xaml` constructs
+// its own DataContext (`<Foo.DataContext><VM/></...>`) — the view OWNS that VM. The
+// extractor only parses `.cs`, so XAML-declared ownership is invisible from the C#
+// alone; we read the sibling `.xaml` here and the subscription detector then treats a
+// field assigned from `this.DataContext` as self-owned. Keyed by the tree's FilePath.
+var viewsOwningDataContext = new HashSet<string>(StringComparer.Ordinal);
 foreach (var path in inputs)
 {
     // Defensive: an explicit input that is not a readable file (a directory
@@ -1827,6 +1885,19 @@ static bool IsPublicCtor(SyntaxTokenList modifiers)
         continue;
     }
     parsed.Add((Rel(path), CSharpSyntaxTree.ParseText(text, path: path)));
+    if (path.EndsWith(".xaml.cs", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+    {
+        var xamlPath = path[..^3];   // strip ".cs" -> "....xaml"
+        try
+        {
+            if (File.Exists(xamlPath) && XamlDeclaresOwnedDataContext(File.ReadAllText(xamlPath)))
+                viewsOwningDataContext.Add(path);
+        }
+        catch (Exception ex) when (ex is IOException or UnauthorizedAccessException)
+        {
+            // An unreadable sibling `.xaml` just means "ownership unknown" — no exemption.
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 // Project-local compilation (P-014 Tier A): the framework reference set is this
@@ -1936,6 +2007,17 @@ or ImplicitObjectCreationExpressionSyntax
                 && model.GetSymbolInfo(a.Left).Symbol is IFieldSymbol tf
                 && IsTemplatePartFetch(a.Right))
                 selfOwned.Add(tf.Name);
+        //   * WPF MVVM view-model — `_vm = DataContext as VM`: when THIS view's own
+        //     XAML constructs its DataContext (recorded in viewsOwningDataContext from
+        //     the sibling `.xaml`), the view owns that VM, so the view<->VM cycle is
+        //     collectable and subscribing to its events is not a leak. (Mined from
+        //     ScreenToGif's VideoSource: 4 FP subscriptions to its own declared VM.)
+        if (viewsOwningDataContext.Contains(tree.FilePath))
+            foreach (var a in assigns)
+                if (a.IsKind(SyntaxKind.SimpleAssignmentExpression)
+                    && model.GetSymbolInfo(a.Left).Symbol is IFieldSymbol dcf
+                    && ReadsDataContext(a.Right))
+                    selfOwned.Add(dcf.Name);
 
         // Is this class the process-lived WPF application object? Used to drop the
         // static-source region escape (OWN014) — `App` cannot be over-promoted.
@@ -1975,8 +2057,10 @@ or ImplicitObjectCreationExpressionSyntax
                     continue;
                 // Process-lived subscriber (the WPF `App` singleton): a static-source
                 // subscription promotes nothing — `App` already lives for the whole
-                // process — so the region escape (OWN014) is a false positive.
-                if (source == "static" && clsIsApp)
+                // process — so the region escape (OWN014) is a false positive. Scoped
+                // to NON-timers: a timer is forced to source "static" above, but a
+                // never-stopped timer in `App` is still a real leak (CodeRabbit).
+                if (!isTimer && source == "static" && clsIsApp)
                     continue;
                 var released = unsub.Contains($"{a.Left}|{a.Right}")
                     || (isTimer && Receiver(a.Left) is { } recv && stopped.Contains(recv));
 
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<Window x:Class="Own.Samples.Wpf.InjectedDcView"
+        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
+        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
+        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Own.Samples.Wpf">
+    <!-- The ROOT view BINDS (does not construct) its DataContext: it does NOT own the
+         VM that the code-behind reads via this.DataContext. -->
+    <Window.DataContext>
+        <Binding Path="Shared"/>
+    </Window.DataContext>
+    <!-- Codex case: a NESTED element constructs its OWN child VM. This is a DIFFERENT
+         element's DataContext, not the view's this.DataContext, so it must NOT make the
+         view look owned — the subscription must still warn. -->
+    <Grid>
+        <Grid.DataContext>
+            <local:NestedChildVm/>
+        </Grid.DataContext>
+    </Grid>
+</Window>
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+using System;
+
+namespace Own.Samples.Wpf;
+
+// Negative control for the XAML-ownership exemption. This view's XAML BINDS its
+// DataContext (`<Window.DataContext><Binding/></...>` — see the sibling
+// InjectedDcViewSample.xaml): it does NOT construct the VM, the DataContext is
+// inherited / externally supplied and may outlive the view. So the field is NOT owned
+// and the subscription must still WARN (OWN001). This proves the gate suppresses only
+// PROVEN construction, not every `DataContext as T`.
+public partial class InjectedDcView
+{
+    private readonly InjectedVm _vm;
+
+    public InjectedDcView()
+    {
+        _vm = DataContext as InjectedVm;
+    }
+
+    public void OnLoaded()
+    {
+        _vm.Changed += OnChanged;        // unowned source -> possible leak -> warns
+    }
+
+    private void OnChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { }
+}
+
+public class InjectedVm
+{
+    public event EventHandler Changed;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<Window x:Class="Own.Samples.Wpf.ViewOwnsVm"
+        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
+        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
+        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Own.Samples.Wpf">
+    <!-- The view CONSTRUCTS its own view-model here: it owns it. -->
+    <Window.DataContext>
+        <local:OwnedVm/>
+    </Window.DataContext>
+</Window>
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+using System;
+
+namespace Own.Samples.Wpf;
+
+// P-004 WPF MVVM ownership (mined: ScreenToGif VideoSource). This view constructs its
+// view-model in its OWN XAML (`<...DataContext><OwnedVm/></...DataContext>` — see the
+// sibling ViewOwnsVmSample.xaml), so it OWNS the VM: the view<->VM reference cycle is
+// GC-collectable and subscribing to the VM's events is NOT a leak. The extractor reads
+// the sibling `.xaml` to see this (it parses only `.cs` otherwise). Must be SILENT.
+public partial class ViewOwnsVm
+{
+    private readonly OwnedVm _vm;
+
+    public ViewOwnsVm()
+    {
+        _vm = DataContext as OwnedVm;
+    }
+
+    public void OnLoaded()
+    {
+        _vm.Changed += OnChanged;        // owned source -> collectable cycle -> silent
+    }
+
+    private void OnChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { }
+}
+
+public class OwnedVm
+{
+    public event EventHandler Changed;
+}